London, England
Polly at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese
The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.
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Places this traveler has marked as been there.
London, England
Monument to Hodge the Cat
Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.
London, England
Aldwych Tube Station
This Underground station has been a popular filming location for decades, even before it closed.
London, England
Carting Lane Sewer Lamp
The pretty iron lamp is a reminder of the architecture underneath London's streets.
London, England
10 Adam Street
England's most famous front door has an accidental doppelganger.
Permanently Closed
London, England
'Great Dangaroo Flood'
On a wall in linear London, a plaque hangs at the high water mark of one of the worst floods in fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.
London, England
The London Beer Flood
On October 17, 1814, a 15-ft. wave of beer ran rampant through the streets of London.
Permanently Closed
London, England
The Buried Remains of Little Compton Street
The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.
London, England
Metropolitan Police Coat Hook
Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.
London, England
Odeon Covent Garden
Formerly known as Saville Theatre, this mid-20th-century entertainment hub includes an ornate frieze.
London, England
British Library Treasures Gallery
The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.
London, England
Aldgate Pump
This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.
London, England
Roman Wharf Timber
The 2,000-year-old beam is tucked within the pedestrian entrance to the old London Bridge.
London, England
Monument to the Great Fire of London
The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.
London, England
Pudding Lane
The Great Fire of London and the regulation of one-way streets both started in this alley.
London, England
London's Original and All-Inspiring Coffee House
The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.
London, England
Signs of Old Lombard Street
The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.
London, England
Mansion House Square
London's amazing modernist public square that never was.
London, England
Postman's Park: Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice
A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.
London, England
London Wall
Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.
London, England
Guildhall's Underground Roman Amphitheater
A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.
London, England
The Gardener Statue
A tribute to all the green-thumbed workers who tend London’s public parks and gardens.
London, England
Leadenhall Market
This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.
London, England
Marianne North Gallery at Kew Gardens
A gallery specifically dedicated to the botanical illustrations of a remarkable traveling lady.
